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About this book
In News from the Kingdom of God, minister and poet David Breeden introduces readers to a Jesus hidden for fifteen hundred years. This new translation of The Gospel of Thomas not only reveals the incisive spiritual vision of Jesus, but also the poetry of his thinking. These meditations include wisdom from diverse religious traditions to delineate a spiritual practice at once mystical and profoundly grounded in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. Jesus lives in these pages, a profound wisdom teacher.
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Theology & ReligionSubtopic
ReligionMeditations on The Gospel of Thomas
Prologue
These are the secret sayings of the living Jesus
that Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.
Meditation
Why is it Jesus
Will speak this way?
Aphorisms and parables:
Who do they keep out?
Not the poor;
not the uneducated;
not those in pain.
Rather, those left out
are those unwilling
to consider paradox;
those who already
“know it all.”
1
He said:
Whoever realizes the meaning of these words,
that person will never die.
Meditation
The Buddhist poet Nagarjuna said something similar,
Nothing comes into existence
and nothing disappears.
Nothing is eternal;
nothing ever ends.
Nothing is identical
and nothing is different.
Nothing moves here or there.
2
Jesus said:
Do not stop until you find.
And when you find,
you will be troubled.
Yet, having been troubled,
you will become amazed,
and then you will be
master of all.
Meditation: Bobbing on Surfaces
Because of your bother
With the surfaces,
The old masters say,
You have lost what is basic,
What is bright,
What is wonderful
About your own mind.
You have covered it,
Losing it like a coin.
And so it feels
Like you are on a wheel;
And so it feels
Like treading water
In an endless sea, bobbing.
Find, right now,
The old masters say,
Your own
Bright mind.
3
Jesus said:
If leaders say, “Look, the Dance of the Sacred is in the sky!”
Then notice how the birds get there before you.
If they say, “Look, the Dance of the Sacred is in the sea!”
Then notice how the fish get there before you.
No—the Dance of the Sacred is both within you and without you.
When you know yourself, then you will be known,
And you will see that you are a child of the one.
However, if you do not know yourself,
Then you live in poverty,
And you are the poverty.
Meditation
In the Gospel According to Mark the location and meaning of the “Kingdom of God” or Dance of the Sacred is not clear. Is it a state of mind? A function of enlightened consciousness? Is it what is known in Buddhism as the “one-mind point of view”? Is it a group of words designed to express the inexpressible? Perhaps. The kingdom is found through self-examination. T...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Text
- A Note on the Structure of this Book
- Meditations on The Gospel of Thomas
- Notes on the Translation
- Sources and Further Reading